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Summary: AIRFRAME
Review: I Purchased the audio tapes for this book, and the first time I listened to it I was LATE for work every day.The second time I was driving to South Carolina (about 11 hrs)and listining to the book made the time fly.There was three of us, and the two who were supposed to be resting couldn't fall asleep because they didin't want to miss any part of the story.If you have never experienced audio books try one the next time you have a long drive or trip. Having someone reading the book brings more suspense and life to the story.I recommend this book not only for the story but for the insight to airplane mfgs and the whole airline industry. I have listened to this book twice and will listen to it again.
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Summary: Airframe - A good story and educational as well
Review: The first MC book I read! I thought his books wouldn't appeal to me. This one did. Close to reality.... I learned about the importance of a relationship between aircraft manufacturers and airlines.If you don't want to read the technical details - skip them. It is easy to find your way back to the story. Meanwhile I read my 2nd MC: Jurassic Park. Totally different but yet the same: Close to reality and it is easy to skip the technical details and still follow the story. A reader from Manhattan
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Summary: Okay.
Review: All in all a pretty uneventful book. Although it was mildy interesting. The inside scoop of aircraft makers is in the book. And, as usual, Crichton remains a genius in details and research. I was excpecting something a little more exciting... The reviews for the book say that "You'll have a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares.." This doesn't seem true. If anything it opened my eyes to how safe planes actually are. A great book for a pilot. An easy, attention-keeping book.
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Summary: A very efficient book
Review: This rather quiet book does a very efficient job of describing the world of airframe construction without ever being boring. The story is quite enthralling and the end quite satisfactory. These are pretty rare qualities!Although the back of the book warned that "you would never want to fly again after reading this book" (or something to that effect) it had the opposite effect for me - as I am now completely confident stepping into an airplane after reading all about its construction.
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Summary: The Story had finished but hadn't
Review: An exciting start to an exciting finsh. Once you think nothing else can happen it does! It eductaes about avaiation and Crichton's research must have been a novel itself. This must have been one of his bests books he has written. There should be a movie! BUY it! :-)
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Summary: What was he doing?
Review: Crichton must have been on vaction when he worked on this novel. The characters are two dimensional and the story is boring but plausable. Not one of Crichtons best works by far! Not representive of the great writer that he is. Other earlier works show his superb writing style much more elegantly than this work. I am still a Crichton fan however this is not one of his best works.
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Summary: Airframe
Review: Michael Chrichtons "Airframe" is an exciting and mysterious book. The book is about a wide body aircraft that has a slats failure while flying, and goes out of control in mid-air, but manages to land with many injuries and three dead. Casey Singleton, who works at Norton Aircraft Company, is assigned to investigate the plane crash. During her investigation she finds out that the pilot, who is highly respected, let his son fly, and his son did not have a license to do so. It is non-stop action as Singleton discovers new clues and un-raps the answers to the reason's of the crash.
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Summary: Classic Crichton
Review: As usual Michael Crichton delivers an exciting narrative, though almost in a different genre from his other thrillers such as Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, or Congo. Airframe is fascinating to readers who appreciate Tom Clancy, though it is easily dull and tedious to those that do not. It is loaded to the brim with Clancy-like research and page upon page of technical jargon which might discourage some readers, though as a whole it is a satisfying, interesting, exciting, and informative novel, easily read in a day or two.
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Summary: Airframe: an instructions guide of how to deal with planes
Review: I just can't say that Michael Crichton hasn't the Gift to write. Yes, he does. The problem is that he's too much worried about research. I'm not saying that an author who's writing about a subject he/she doesn't dominate shouldn't research about it. But Michael Crichton is so worried about it that his books sometimes seem to be written only to those people who understand about it. And instead of a good entertainment, we have in our hands an instructions guide. That's exactly what happens to AIRFRAME. The plot is filled with information about those biggest airplanes and their structure and the whole thing. Boring. Boring. Boring.
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Summary: Profoundly Relevant
Review: With all of the airplanes falling out of the sky I found this audio book profoundly relevant. It takes you through an airline disaster with great detail in a very entertaining way. Tense moments make this a fast listen. I'll never fly again! BRING ON THE MOVIE!
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